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SCIENTISTS ARE BUILDING A “BLACK BOX” TO RECORD THE END OF CIVILIZATION

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Dyl1983 8 Dec 8
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They should put it in orbit, with solar cells to power it and send a radio signal.

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You mean, like the Pyramids? Chances of survival.......Lol!

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There is even a viable movement acknowledging and celebrating the end. I like it. [vhemt.org]

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Will what’s next at the top of earth’s food chain have any use for the contents of the box?

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It's tragic to see supposedly smart people waste their time so frivolously.

These people are not paying attention. Don't worry, notes are being taken, and maybe some use will come of our catastrophe. Just not us.

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The investment is trivial, the possible benefit is priceless beyond words. Over 5,000 civilizations have risen and fallen in human history, and we still really don't know why it's been such a failure prone endeavor. Time capsules like this would be a huge boon to any future civilization trying to avoid the pitfalls of its predecessors. Kudos, science ftw.

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Seems pointless. Anything that could get here would have almost necessarily been able to avoid the evolutionary pitfalls we fell victim to, so they likely wouldn't learn anything. And there isn't enough time left on Earth for humans to die out completely and have something else evolve to the point they could learn from it. It's just going to fill up, stop recording, then melt to a gigantic solar flare or massive asteroid. Maybe those scientists should be working on gene therapy to prevent fetuses from turning into dumb, backward-ass, regressive, Republicans?

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What could possibly evolve that could decipher the contents? Human life was an accident. What comes next would be a carbon-based life form, but probably much different.

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